News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

The Evolution of Solar Power – It’s Older Than You Think!

Solar power today is based on the same premise as solar power over the many centuries it has been in use. That’s right, I said centuries. Solar power has been around for a long time in various forms and has been around since the earth was an infant! Time to take a look at solar [...]

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Solar Power Generation Is A Natural Fit For Our Future Power Needs

Solar power is just an incredible way to power our world. If we could find methods of tapping into the sun’s energy for ALL our power requirements, the world would be a much safer and cleaner place. We know the sun is a powerful source of renewable power but only one hour of the sun’s [...]

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Leasing Solar Panels A Great Alternative, Says Celebrity TV Contractor

Mike Holmes, star of Holmes on Homes on HGTV, thinks homeowners with sun drenched roofs should lease solar panels on the space, mutually future proofing their technology as well as supplying any extra energy to benefit the grid. Holmes talks about his own property just outside of Toronto, Canada where he has some extra land [...]

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New Report Looks At Concentrated PV And Solar PV Globally For Next Five Years

A new report has been released and is available at Reportlinker.com called Concentrated Photovoltaic (PV) and Solar Photovoltaic Global Market (2009-2014). It details copious amounts of data and information regarding the global market for the renewable solar power industry. The renewable energy sector is about to explode worldwide and solar photovoltaic [PV] cells will be [...]

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Renewable Energy Future Secured Thanks To Copenhagen Summit

A couple weeks ago as representatives from nations worldwide gathered in Copenhagen for the much ballyhooed climate summit, division was the foremost issue on the minds of organizers. Developing countries were seeking assistance financially so they too could regulate their countries emissions and industrialized nations balked at curbing CO² emissions in order to turn around [...]

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Solar Power Cost Lowered, Installations On Rise

There is some really great news meant for each electricity- consuming consumer as well as renewable power providers and even installers as well. The cost of solar electrical power is likely to fall by – fifty percent inside of this year, when compared with the year previous, For the most part because of a huge [...]

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Solar Energy Project Using Green Tech To Improve Lives Of Isolated Andean Villagers

There are mountain districts where Llama herds graze and villagers rely on primitive biomass technology [firewood for cooking] and to provide warmth in their mud brick dwellings and have done so for centuries. It is an isolated area in a corner of an immense South American nation where deforestation and soil erosion is the norm. [...]

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Biomass Often Overlooked As A Viable Renewable Energy Source

With the price and controversy that comes with conventional power generation, consumers and suppliers both are scrambling to find new methods to produce electricity. One of the less heard about forms of alternative energy is biomass, which is the production of power and current from plant waste, or in certain situations, plants that are raised [...]

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New Ideas For Utility Energy Storage

Energy storage has been putting a crimp into renewable energy production and technical development for since the inception of alternative power methods. Energy storage at the utility level has been studied and implemented and today the result is far more than stacks if lithium batteries for power stowage. One only needs to look at the [...]

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Huge New York Area Ocean Wind Development Much Closer To Reality

New York based politicos and energy authorities are going forward with an ambitious offshore wind development that might be the biggest in the nation, located just thirteen miles off shore of the Borough of Queens. The Long Island – New York City Official Wind Collaborative, a faction made up of utilities and government organizations stated [...]

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